Photographic prints
Artist: David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870), Robert Adamson
Location: University of St Andrews Library
Date: circa 1845
Materials: salted paper prints
Dimensions: various
Grant:
Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £39,000)
Vendor: Through Lindsey S Stewart, LSS Photography
Review number: 5661 (2005)
Provenance:
Robert Carfrae collection.
Description:
All 9 photographs result from the collaboration of Hill and Robert Adamson before Adamson's early death in 1848 using the calotype process developed by Henry Fox Talbot in 1839. 1) St. Andrew's Harbour; 2) Mary Hamilton, Lady Ruthven; 3) Burnside, Fife; 4) The Fishergate, St. Andrew's; 5) Rev. Dr. James Brewster; 6) Mrs Anna Jamieson; 7) Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers; 8) Scott Monument, Edinburgh, during construction; 9) Roslin Chapel.
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